STOOTS v. COMMONWEALTH


66 S.E.2d 866 (1951)

192 Va. 857

STOOTS et al. v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

October 8, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ted Dalton, Richard H. Poff, Radford, for plaintiffs in error.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Atty. Gen., Frederick T. Gray, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the Commonwealth.

Before HUDGINS, C. J., and EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, SMITH and WHITTLE, JJ.


BUCHANAN, Justice.

On Sunday afternoon, February 13, 1949, the body of Charles Lewis McFall was found in a cistern in his back yard, in which there was about eight feet of water. His throat had been cut and he was dead before he was put into the cistern.

Frank and LeRoy Stoots, defendants below, along with Myrtle Stoots Orange, who is a sister of Frank Stoots and an aunt of LeRoy Stoots, were jointly indicted for...

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